Engraft Definition

ĕn-grăft
engrafts
verb
To graft (a shoot, etc.) from one plant onto another.
Webster's New World
To establish firmly; implant.
Webster's New World
To become successfully incorporated in the host body. Used of a transplanted tissue.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
adjective

(rare) Engrafted.

Wiktionary

Origin of Engraft

  • From earlier ingraft, equivalent to en- (“in”) +‎ graft.

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Engraft Sentence Examples

  • The humanistic movement led these learned writers to engraft the graces of the antique upon their native literature, and to refine it by emulating the lucidity of Petrarch.

  • The relativism or phenomenalism which Hamilton afterwards adopted from Kant and sought to engraft upon Scottish philosophy is wholly absent from the original Scottish doctrine.

  • The latter were often little more than historical novels founded on facts; and the former, though nominally intended to engraft the doctrines of Buddhism and Shinto upon the philosophy of China, were really of rationalistic tendency.

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Words Starting With

EENENG

Words Ending With

TFTAFT

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engraft

Words Starting With E and Ending With T

Starts With E & Ends With TStarts With EN & Ends With TStarts With E & Ends With FT

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With E7 Letter Words Ending With T